Sorry just noticed everything is sideways

Very nice

Thank you DarkKnight

Nice....any holes in the plastic
covers on the Agave to let moisture
out/keep from overheat?

Nice....any holes in the plastic
covers on the Agave to let moisture
out/keep from overheat?

Yep, I drilled maybe 15 holes on each side. I did notice last year that the agave neomexicana and agave harvardiana had spots and wilted (is that the correct word for it?) areas. I think maybe moisture collected on the top of the bins and dripped onto the agaves. I think when they get a little bigger I might put chicken wire around them, cover the chicken wire in bubble wrap or plastic and then put a piece of plywood on top to cover it and see if that helps.

When they are smaller that happens
but as they get larger it wont be as
much of an issue,mine could get rather
spotty as infants as I recall 😀

When they are smaller that happens
but as they get larger it wont be as
much of an issue,mine could get rather
spotty as infants as I recall 😀

Remember the winter of 2013/2014? The winter from hell? I had an agave parryi outside. It was just starting to get to be a nice size. I uncovered it in March and everything looked fine. Then a light dusting of snow came along. I figured that that happens in El Paso so why bother covering them. It was barely at 32 F. A few days later the leaves (is that the right name for agaves?) swelled up and rotted. The same thing happened to my harvardiana that I had just planted outside in March (so it wasn't out side all winter). The spear was still looking good. So I waited a month or so and saw that it was slowly opening up but it had some whitish color and it looked shriveled. Later my wife pulled on the spear and a bunch of rotted leaves came out. I thought it was dead.

Later it started shooting out about 4 pups so I left it. This year I noticed that new leaves were growing out of the main agave. But they are small leaves coming out compared to the way it looked before.
I kick myself for not having protected it in March from the snow.

I'm still not sure though if it was the cold from that winter or the snow that almost made it lose it's spear.

Had to have been the earlier conditions I would think....
That small amount of snow and cold should not have done that-weird.

Had to have been the earlier conditions I would think....
That small amount of snow and cold should not have done that-weird.

I could see the spear rotting being due to the cold but it seemed like the leaves rotting was caused directly by the snow.
One proof of this was that my harvardianas leaves swelled up and rotted but it didnt spend the winter outside. I planted it in march.

Everything looks good.

Agaves tend to be extremely xeric, and their hardiness depends on them being hardened off ( dry ). So once winter sets in my xeric agaves like havardiana and parryi will get covered a day or two before cold weather. The clear plastic actually helps dry the ground around them.

Everything looks good.

Agaves tend to be extremely xeric, and their hardiness depends on them being hardened off ( dry ). So once winter sets in my xeric agaves like havardiana and parryi will get covered a day or two before cold weather. The clear plastic actually helps dry the ground around them.

Thank you!

Here are pictures of my agave parryi. How it looks after the spear rotted.

Samething happened to my Montana last March. All the leaves turned purple then the meristem rotted. But since it has regrown nicely.